Conservation Corner: Haven’t Seen a Cougar? Well, It’s Seen You

February 1, 2016

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February 2016 Wild Lands Advocate article by Niki Wilson

In early April several years ago Geoff Skinner, my husband and a Parks Canada resource management officer, received a call from Jasper Park Lodge about a cougar that had taken down a cow elk at Mildred Lake. Geoff specializes in human/wildlife conflicts and responded to the Lodge’s call since this cougar kill posed a public safety concern for skaters and others in the area. At the same time three cougars, what looked
like a mother with two young, were spotted successfully taking down sheep in the eastern part of Jasper National Park.

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